Welcome to Cobalt, an ASCII art editor for MS-DOS. This has been completely re-written in C++ using DJGPP.

In order to build Cobalt in MS-DOS, DJGPP for MS-DOS is required. Visit https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ select "Zip Picker" with the following options defined:

• FTP Site: http://www.delorie.com
• Build and run programs with DJGPP
• Operating System: MS-DOS, OpenDOS, PC-DOS
• On-line documentation: Yes
• Programming Languages: C, C++
• IDE: RHIDE
• GDB: Yes
• Toolkits: Unix Curses Emulator

Click on the "Tell me which files I need" and follow the instructions.

Once DJGPP has been installed, compile Cobalt:

CD SRC
MAKE

The compiled version of Cobalt will be in the BIN folder.

This application was written using Visual Studio Code configured to using the GNU C/C++ tool chain, and compiled and tested in DOSBox version 0.74-3 using DJGPP.

While the application is capable of using EOF (end-of-file) or Escape characters and 16 background colors, there is very limited support in the DOSBox implementation of the ANSI.SYS driver; background colors will not add in the intensity and it will replace the EOF/Escape characters with a space. The drawing have not been tested in MS-DOS's nor FreeDOS's ANSI.SYS drivers.

Plain-text files are stripped of all the colors, and that character of the line will be removed so that it can display in the 80x25 console correctly.